In its weekly voxpop the Advertiser found out people’s opinions on ceasing a Newark market day.
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00:00 I hear that the council is considering closing the market from two days to one day. I think
00:07 that's a great shame. There's been a market in Newark marketplace since medieval times
00:19 and it brings people into the town, it gives it a vibrant bustle that it doesn't have on
00:25 days like today and I think that would be a great pity.
00:29 I think it would be a shame because there's more and more markets disappearing and if
00:33 they get rid of that then everything else is going within Newark so it would just be
00:38 a shame if that was to go as well because it's not just a market, it's a different market
00:42 so it would be a real shame.
00:44 Well I reckon the market wants completely altered going back to what it used to be,
00:50 Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays but I also think that the town council should really
00:56 consider dropping the price of the charging for about a year and encourage people to come
01:02 on to the market. At the moment that is not happening and every week you see it going
01:08 downhill. I remember when you used to have to queue up to get a stall on this market
01:14 and now look at it, an absolute disgrace.
01:18 The reason I come to Newark is that I live in Lincoln and this little town is so picturesque
01:24 that I love to come and take photographs and the marketplace is a centrepiece and this
01:30 is why I like to come here and hopefully it will remain open for a while yet.
01:36 Well we received a letter, a form, giving us various options and asking us to put our
01:43 opinion down and that was it. We filled it in and we've heard no more. That was a consultation
01:52 and I suppose that was it. We just had one little letter, we filled in our opinion on
01:57 various options and as I say we've heard no more. There's been no discussion with us,
02:03 no comeback, nobody wanting to know any of the suggestions we put forward, nobody's discussed
02:11 anything with us and as far as I know they had already made their mind up before this
02:18 letter came out and a decision seems to have already been made and we're as much in the
02:26 dark I think as the general public are. I wouldn't use the word consultation, I think
02:32 they're stretching their credibility in some way. We've had no face to face discussion
02:39 with any official counsellors and I haven't discussed any alternatives or any suggestions
02:47 we put forward for the running of the markets and we're just having to accept I think we
02:54 now realise that by the end of the year we may no longer have a collector's market here
03:00 in Newark anymore.
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